Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four while terminally ill with tuberculosis on the remote Scottish Isle of Jura, coughing blood and typing the manuscript in bed through freezing winters.
His urgency came from what he had personally witnessed in the 1930s: Soviet propaganda falsifying the history of the Spanish Civil War, and his own wartime work producing state broadcasts for the BBC in London.
His urgency came from what he had personally witnessed in the 1930s: Soviet propaganda falsifying the history of the Spanish Civil War, and his own wartime work producing state broadcasts for the BBC in London.
